Leah Stein Dance Company captures the beauty and ambiguity of staged realism in Close to Home.
Leah Stein has created a space for potential— allowing audience members to fashion their own associations with this movement
The simplicity of their movement has a beautifully muffled quality; hushed and gentle, like snow.
Stein’s dancers were joined by eight community performers of various ages and backgrounds, a fine choice for Frieda's Café.
The weightedness of bodies in 'Hoist,' either in motion or at rest, was the strongest metaphorical connection to an industrial past of physical labor and heavy machinery.
Philadelphia Dance Projects organized a retrospective of Leah Stein’s work, celebrating her eponymous troupe’s tenth anniversary.
In this instance I’ve decided to play the role of miner; trusting that the many angles offered up will unearth aspects of this multifaceted gem.